That’s crazy for so many reasons.
A. What about other minorities or ethnicities who have experienced discrimination? All races have experienced discrimination at one time or another. It’s not fair to the Irish, Italians, Asians and Hispanics, just to name a few.
B. I would think very few black families have actual records of a family link to slavery. There is a blanket assumption that most do, but who can really prove it?
“...who can really prove it?”
There’ll find Certificates of Live Birth, just like Obama had.
I think it is racist of this ‘Rat senator to ask them to provide written documentation. There is no way a slave was aware of anything being written down about them. They should demand to be able to utilize the “oral history” like the native Americans do when they want to make special claims they know they can’t back up.
When I was working on a project with the Nez Perce tribe these were referred to as “coyote stories”.